Research diary - 2 books, 2 websites, 2 magazines/newspapers/journals (secondary&qualitative data)
on your topic/target audience/how to make a documentary

How to set out your diary -
subheadings
- books (get a quote from a book, write page no. and author name underneath) summarise what the quote means in your own words. How useful was this research? Was it relevant? biased? easy to understand? will it help inform your documentary? Find a section from a book that is useful to you and summarise it into 3 or 4 bullet points.

- websites (must be academic/relevant information, find a section from a website that is useful to you and summarise into 3 or 4 bullet points. How useful? relevant,biased,easy to understand? will it inform your documentary. Find a quote from a website, link is needed with title of page and the author of the site. Summarise what this quote means into your own words)

- magazines/newspapers/journals (find a quote, link to the name of the author/title of mag/paper/journal and date it was published. Summarise what this quote means into your own words. How useful was this research? relevant? biased? easy to understand? help documentary? Read a section of the article and summarise into 3/4 bullet points pulling out key information)

analyse other documentaries for the things they use to hook that audience. (music,images,statistics,people,language,techniques etc)

undertake primary research with target audience - ask age,do you watch documentaries, what do they watch, what genre/public topics are they interested in, ask about your topic.

Treatment - what is in it and how to set it out.

1 - who is the target audience for your documentary? age,gender,interests
2 - how you are going to target your audience?
3 - how you will be better than other documentaries?
4 - plot/outline (what will your audience learn? make links to some research from your diary)